To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.